somebody saw them and was like, you need to do that in wynwood. - yeah.o a formal arts education. that was for the rich. so like a lot of kids from the dominican republic, he took up america's pastime. - so i dedicated my life to playing baseball. i started playing college, and got a couple, like, interests from major league teams. while i was trying to sign a contract, my arm blew out. - no way. - um, i didn't get to sign a contract. my dreams were done. - wow. - so, like, there was a little bit of depression. i didn't know what i was going to do. all i could do was art, so i started drawing. i just drew for, like, six months. - the drawing became sort of like a healing for you. - yeah, like a healing, but it's something that i knew i wanted to do from the beginning. - right. - and since i'm not gonna be a baseball player, might as well do what i want to do. i was like, "i'm gonna go to art school." i went into an art college. they told me how much it was going to be. and i was like, "no, thank you. sorry." - right, right. - then i started teaching mysel